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CVE-2001-0062 — LOW severity vulnerability (procfs in FreeBSD and possibly other operating systems allow)

procfs in FreeBSD and possibly other operating systems allows local users to cause a denial of service by calling mmap on the process' own mem file, which causes the kernel to hang.

CVE IDCVE-2001-0062
SeverityLOW
CVSS score2.1
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CWENVD-CWE-Other
StatusModified
Published2001-02-12
Last modified2026-04-16
Descriptionprocfs in FreeBSD and possibly other operating systems allows local users to cause a denial of service by calling mmap on the process' own mem file, which causes the kernel to hang.
SourceNIST National Vulnerability Database

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